204 MR. H. W. PUGSLEY : A REVISÍON OF THE 
!! Racemi longi, multiflori ; foliorum lacini quam in typo angustiores. 
ò. densiflora, Parlatore, Mon. Fum. 53 (1844); Haussk. l. e. 421 
(1813). F. densiflora, DC. Cat. Hort. Monsp. 113 (1813), et Prodr. 
Syst. Nat. i. 130 (1824), ex parte ; F. officinalis var. floribunda, Koch, 
Syn. Fl. Germ.ed.2, App. 1018(1845), ex parte; Hamm. l. c. 10 (1857); 
F. oficinalis var. pycnantha, Loret & Barr. Fl. Montp. ed. 1, 32 
(1876) ; F. parviflora, Sibth. & Smith, Fl. Græc. Prodr. ii. 50 (1813), 
et Fl. Græc. vii. 63 (1830) ? non Lamarck. 
Icon. Ñibth. & Smith, Fl. Greee. vii. tab. 668, ut F. parviflora. 
Evsiec. Bourgeau, Pyr.-Espag. No. 394, ut F. officinalis ! Welwitsch, Fl. 
Lusit. Nos. 136 & 764, ut F. officinalis var. parviflora ! 
The F. parviflora of Sibthorp & Smith was referred by Hammar to 
F. micrantha, to which the description, at least as to its subglobose fruits, 
may be held to apply. The figure, however, has evidently been drawn from 
an example of this variety of F. officinalis, which it very well portrays, except 
for the obscurely shown fruits. Both the corolla and the sepals are widely 
different from those of any form of F. micrantha. 
It is also probable, though not equally certain, that this variety is the 
F. officinalis var. densiflora of Moris's * Flora Sardoa,’ i. p. 90 (1837). 
e. elegans, Pugsley, l. c. 52 (1912). F. media, Reichb. Icon. Fl. 
Germ. iii. 1 (1838), nee Lois. nec aliorum. 
leon. Reichb. l. c. tab. 2, fig. 4453, ut F. media. 
Exsice. Billot; Fl. G. & G. No. 214, ut F. officinalis! Fiori & Béguinot, 
FI. Exsiec. Ital. ii. No. 1050, ut F. officinalis ! 
This plant is well marked by its ample glaucous foliage with narrowly 
lanceolate segments, by its long racemes of usually pale flowers, and by its 
small fruits borne on long and slender pedicels subtended by relatively short 
bracts. These features do not agree with those of Loiseleur’s F. media, but 
are emphasized by Reichenbach, either in his plate or his diagnosis, where 
the plant is referred to as a “species constantissima.” 
Continental examples occasionally show finer flowers than those from 
which the description in “ Fumaria in Britain ” was taken, and present some- 
what the appearance of a rampant state of var. densiflora. 
Hammar cites Reichenbach’s figure of F. media for his var. scandens, but 
his description depicts a different plant with broad leaf-segments and large 
fruits, whose affinity may be held uncertain. 
The variety albiflora, Parlatore, Mon. p. 53, with which the author identifies 
F. Gasparini, Bab. in Trans. Bot. Soc. Edin. i. 36 (1844), is referred by 
Hammar to var. minor. No material of this species has been seen, however, 
with the white flowers by which var. albiflora is distinguished, and it seems 
probable that this character was taken from a shade-form only. 
Of the var. banatia, Haussk. l.e. 421 (1873), no authentic material has 
been examined, and its identity with Reichenbach’s var. scandens seems to 
require further investigation. 
